Word: cult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years of earthly reign Father Divine has hurled many a curse at the conspicuously unbelieving.* Last week he leveled his biggest blast in years. The main target: Sociologist Sara Harris, 34, whose recent book, Father Divine: Holy Husband (Doubleday: $3.95), is a sprightly study of Father and his cult...
AFTERMATH OF THE ABSOLUTE starts with the premise that art has ceased to be mainly connected with religion: "The cult of Science and Reason [is] not just another metamorphosis of religious sentiment, but its negation." Modern painters, he adds, make art itself a sort of substitute for religion. "Modern art . . . does not sponsor any makeshift absolute, but. at least in the artist's eyes, has stepped into its-the absolute's-place...
...fisted attitude toward love and war. For 15 years-in Spain, the French air force, the R.A.F., the Maquis-he has been fighting "to defend a civilization which, from the Virgin Mary, Dante, Petrarch and the Troubadors...to the humblest of our movies...has always celebrated the cult of love." Ann is a Hollywood movie star who seems frigid only because the right man has never come along to thaw her out. The emotional storm they generate is so electric that for two days they barely have time...
...Furthermore, the companies with such huge training programs that they boast "when we retire a chairman we hire an office boy" are apt to be too inbred; they miss the new blood and new ideas that the occasional hiring of executives from outside would bring. And while a whole cult of "executive-grooming" counselors has sprung up', one of the leading counselors candidly concedes that many companies with formal programs are simply imitating each other and "grasping at straws...Lights are flashing and bells are ringing, but no men are being developed...On the other hand, a number...
Whilst appreciating the honor TIME [Aug. 31] bestowed in featuring the teaching of the British Israel World Federation . . . I would like to correct the impression made by the use of the word "cult." As the Oxford Dictionary defines this as a "system of religious worship," the federation pleads "not guilty," for it is an interdenominational organization; it has no church status ... It is an organization ... of all the recognized Christian denominations . . . We believe in the Second Coming and the establishment of His Kingdom on Earth [and] in the continuity throughout history of the whole House of Israel from whom...